“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus
Tag: Quote of the Day
25AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius
Reading the Stoic quotes you could be tempted to think it all sounds too inhuman, too sterile. But what I remember then is that Aurelius lived his creed and selflessly struggled to hold back the forces of entropy that were inexorably waiting for his death to pummel the seemingly invulnerable Roman Empire with the first of an endless series of blows that would eventually grind it dust. A lesser man, like his son Commodus would abandon the grinding drudgery of defending the imperial frontier and devote himself to decadent pleasure while the world dissolved.
24AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius
23AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
21AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.”
Egads, another poet. But I love Poe for his short stories too. He was a master and I would learn from him.
20AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!”
Edgar Allan Poe
Egads, another poet. But I love Poe for his short stories too. He was a master and I would learn from him.
19AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“Melancholy is … the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Egads, another poet. But I love Poe for his short stories too. He was a master and I would learn from him.
18AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect – they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul – not of intellect, or of heart.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Egads, another poet. But I love Poe for his short stories too. He was a master and I would learn from him.
17AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Egads, another poet. But I love Poe for his short stories too. He was a master and I would learn from him.
16AUG2018 – Quote of the Day
“A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Egads, another poet. But I love Poe for his short stories too. He was a master and I would learn from him.